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Schism detected in both extremes, or, Two sorts of sinful separation the first part…Schism detected in both extreams, or, Two sorts of sinful separation the first part…
Schism detected in both extremes, or, Two sorts of sinful separation the first part detecteth the schismatical principles of a resolver of three cases about church-communion, the second part confuteth the separation pleaded for in a book famed to be written by Mr. Raphson.Schism detected in both extreams, or, Two sorts of sinful separation the first part detecteth the schismatical principles of a resolver of three cases about church-communion, the second part confuteth the separation pleaded for in a book famed to be written by Mr. Raphson.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1684
Part 2: THE SECOND PART AGAINST SCHISM, &c. The Reasons of Mr. Raphson, and such others, agains…
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
This Worship, as within, is the secret act of the soul; as expressed, it is the act of the body.
This Worship, as within, is the secret act of the soul; as exprest, it is the act of the body.
Of such Worship there are two sorts: One sort is made necessary, statedly, by God's commanding it in particular. To this no man must add the like, or from it diminish any thing so commanded, either pretending God's authority, or his own. The other sort is but the subordinate ordering of the former, and is but the manner of doing it. This God doth not institute in particular, but only give man a general Rule, how to choose it himself; which is, That all be done in love, and to edification, decently and in order.
Either this latter sort is to be called Worship, or not: If it be, then it falls under his opposition: If not, then, 1. He must give us a definition of Worship, which shall exclude it; and so Worship must be somewhat else than the direct or immediate acting or expressing honour to God: And then who knows what he meaneth by it? 2. And then when we plead for mens making none but this, he should to avoid deceit, confess that the Controversy is only of the Name (whether Modes and Circumstances of God's instituted Worship, may be called Worship), and not at all of the Thing (whether it be lawful or not): This had been like a Christian Teacher.
Either this latter sort is to be called Worship, or not: If it be, then it falls under his opposition: If not, then, 1. He must give us a definition of Worship, which shall exclude it; and so Worship must be somewhat else than the direct or immediate acting or expressing honour to God: And then who knows what he meaneth by it? 2. And then when we plead for mens making none but this, he should to avoid deceit, confess that the Controversie is only of the Name (whether Modes and Circumstances of God's instituted Worship, may be called Worship), and not at all of the Thing (whether it be lawful or not): This had been like a Christian Teacher.